I would like to submit all the custom code I used to integrate the front page news rotator that I'm using. It took me a couple days to set it up. It would include the custom css to fit the openpublish template, a CCK content type which I can export, a view which I can export, and instruction how to add the code to page.tpl.php and openpublish.info to create a new region.

However, I did pay $17 for the news rotator template that I used so I can't make that one available. I did start with a different one that was free to use. I think that it's still on my site. If not I can pull it from a backup and perhaps make the other one available to the people who maintain and developed the dynamic display block module.

It's a very nice feature to the OpenPublish template, it looks great, drives people to that content, and viewing the site as a crawler or robot puts that html first.

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Adam S commented

I'm moving my discussions that are not support related to groups.drupal.org/openpublish. I just copied this thread. http://groups.drupal.org/node/38806

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irakli commented

Thank you, Adam. We love code contributions. Issue queue is probably the best way to submit such contributions, for now.

It looks like your code could make a perfect Feature (with capital letter, as in Drupal Feature) for OpenPublish. If we get several more of those, we should probably start a section for OP Features on the website.

Thank you!

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Adam S commented

I was going to install the new openpublish installation profile in order to test the front page rotator and my article tpl.php files so I could share them however I can't get it to work on my XP WAMP stack or on the shared server that I use for development at a2hosting.

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quikeg commented
Title: Making the front page rotator available for openpublish. » Make a custom region for openpublish.
Project: OpenPublish » Admin block
Component: Theme » Code
Assigned: Unassigned » quikeg
Category: feature » support
Priority: Normal » Critical

Hi.. I´m building a site wiht openpublish and I know OpenPubish contain predefined regions, but i need to add a new. I saw a post (POST THAT I SAW) which so something like this but the file template.php is not the same.

Thanks for answer

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Adam S commented

Let me know what you want to do and I'll walk you through it.

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Adam S commented

I'll actually try to help you using this. http://drupal.org/node/286219

@phase2 people. If I use this in some fashion http://drupal.org/project/views_arg_context with Custom Pages.module will I get the same effect as using panels to pass an argument (taxonomy term) as panels defines 'context'?

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irakli commented

@quikeg,

new regions are added via .info file in the theme. But you should not be changing openpublish_theme, you should sub-theme it.

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irakli commented

@adamsohn,

it looks like that module is for Views, so a little unsure where Custompage comes into play in your scenario? If you embed the said view with custompage, it should still work, yes.

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chinnerz commented

Adam,

I am really interested in incorporating the front page news rotator into the site I am starting to build in OpenPublish 2.0. Can you give me an update on how this project is going or maybe walk me through this? I am new to working with regions and templates.

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Adam S commented

I tried to make a feature with it but it was too complicated for me. I used the Dynamic Display Block module and followed the instructions on the profile page which are pretty straight forward. I also wrapped the two right hand columns on the front page in a div and then create a div block on top of the two columns with a class="clear". Also I needed to create a new region which I added to the new div block. In context I added the ddblock block to that new region and everything works.

Since views slideshow is native to OP you might want to research how to implement that instead.